Conferences & Events

This year’s programme will be held in the delightful surroundings of St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Led by Mark, Willem, Chris Cullen and Melanie Fennell, the week will be an opportunity to learn from
some of the worlds’ leading mindfulness experts, but to also grow your own community of mindfulness practitioners, teachers and trainers from around the world.

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£6.4 million research programme

To assess effectiveness of mindfulness training in UK schools will involve nearly six thousand students aged 11 to 14. Other parts of the study are a programme of experimental research to
establish whether and how mindfulness improves the mental resilience of teenagers, and an evaluation of the most effective way to train teachers to deliver mindfulness classes to
students. Full Details from Wellcome Trust

School children in England

. . . are among the most unhappy in the world. Worse than those in Ethiopia, Algeria and Romania. English children ranked 14th out of 15 countries for overall life satisfaction,
just ahead of South Korea, and scored low for aspects related to their "self" and school, according to research by the University of York in partnership with The Children's Society.Read the interactive report

The Mindfulness Foundationwww.mindfulnessfoundation.org.uk"Mindfulness as popular as sport and as politically relevant as
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